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>Probably my peak fame right there. My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting even
by duxup 2y ago
>Probably my peak fame right there.
My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now."
At least yours got you something ;)
- klondike_klive 2y agoOne of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."
- jvm___ 2y agoI envision happy families watching the end credits for Dad's name as Third Assistant Caterer on a big budget film.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoBest Boy Grip, the assistant to the Key Grip
- whycome 2y agoAnd getting pissed off because Netflix minimizes it into the corner to already try to push some other show on you.
- 14 2y agoCouldn’t be worse then a YouTube short that has writing in the video but is covered by the subscribe button and some description of the video you wish were not there
- im3w1l 2y agoThank you for putting that image in my mind, it brought a smile to my face.
- linsomniac 2y agoI now always stay around in the movie theater to see who the sysadmins were that worked on the film, for solidarity reasons. :-) Pretty much all the movies these days have them, which I would have never imagined would be the case back in the '80s when I started this career path.
- xrisk 2y agoHuh I’ve never noticed a sysad credit in a credits roll. Are they labeled as something else?
- linsomniac 2y agoIt depends, sometimes yes sometimes no. Toy Story 2 says "systems administrators & support" for example: https://youtu.be/4rL_4Xqak1Y?si=R2ykfdSarIjjGDZP&t=288 https://youtu.be/4rL_4Xqak1Y?si=R2ykfdSarIjjGDZP&t=288
- Agentlien 2y agoThis is totally the case! The first time I was credited in a big production[0] I totally made my family watch the credits. Luckily, my name (Daniel Kvick) was quite close to the top. Unfortunately, in the next game I made them watch the credits[1] for my son's name in Production Babies. It is right at the end and the wait was embarrassingly long. [0] https://www.mobygames.com/game/75645/need-for-speed/credits/playstation-4/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/75645/need-for-speed/credits/... [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/98129/need-for-speed-payback/credits/windows/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/98129/need-for-speed-payback/...
- xanderlewis 2y agoThat is a very Dad thing to say.
- brightball 2y agoThe swordsman in Indiana Jones comes to mind. The guy famously trained for months for the fight scene and a tired Harrison Ford just pulled out the gun and shot him. Everybody thought it was hilarious and that became the scene.
- HenryBemis 2y agoI remember hearing/seeing that "he had the shits" that day, and wanted to wrap-up the scene so he can go recover/rest. https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-swordsman-shoot-raiders-lost-ark-reason/ https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-swordsman-shoot-raiders... "It sounds wrong to say one should thank Ford’s sickness for one of the most iconic scenes, but Raiders of the Lost Ark is definitely better off for it." https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark-gun-knife-fight-true-story/ https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-raiders-lost-ark-gun-kn... "A much more elaborate fight scene was planned, but Ford developed dysentery while filming in Morocco..."
- arwhatever 2y agoA funny quip from mst3k was “their whole family probably gathered in front of the tv to watch them deliver that 1 line.”
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- scrozier 2y agoYou may or may not be aware that Andy Warhol famously quipped that, "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," back in the late 1960s. As media has gotten to be ever more ubiquitous and the cost of entry lower, he was clearly onto something decades before the internet!
- sslalready 2y agoAnd then there’s Banksy’s “in the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes“. For pretty much the same reasons you stated above, I assume.
- lazystar 2y agois that how long it takes before a newborn is given their SSN?
- nkrisc 2y agoA few weeks, as I recall.
- Kon-Peki 2y agoIn a modern hospital, depending on how healthy a baby is, it might get as many as 15 minutes before the not-removable-except-by-cutting RFID-enabled tag is attached to the wrist or ankle and it becomes part of the hospital inventory and the movements are tracked religiously. They are deathly afraid of accidentally mixing up babies between parents (with a side of worry about them getting stolen). Each of my kids were born at a hospital that averaged a delivery every 15-20 minutes. A nurse may see 50 deliveries in a shift and keeping track is going to be a challenge.
- nkrisc 2y agoThat’s true, I just meant SSN. Newborns are not anonymous by design.
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- warner25 2y agoTotally indulging in this side discussion: I remember thinking in high school and college that fame was the end-all of life, telling people that my goal was to have my own Wikipedia page. I saw it as something like the combination of being a "cool kid" (but for, you know, the whole of society instead of just one's school) and a sort of immortality. Anyway, over the last couple of decades as an adult, besides realizing the obvious - how terribly shallow that is, and missing so much of what's really good in life - I've realized how fleeting fame seems to be even for the truly famous. Even looking over the list of US Presidents (never mind lesser political figures like VPs, cabinet members, congressmen, etc.) as someone who has always been interested in history, I look at some names and think, "who?" or "I've heard the name, but know nothing about him." I mean, of course you can still read about them, but that even a US President can be largely forgotten as a household name within 250 years is really a stunning thing to think about; they are ultimately no more immortal than someone who only has their name in a genealogy database or on a grave marker.
- Gollapalli 2y agoI think the desire for fame isn't an inherently bad thing. > He was the man most gracious and fair-minded, > Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame. Those are the last lines of Beowulf. A man who won great fame among his people by slaying monsters and dragons. It's telling that the final line of the poem ends with his most dominant trait, "and keenest to win fame." Wanting fame is not wrong, and is far from shallow. The question is, "fame for what?" Regardless of whether you think Beowulf existed or not, it's telling that for a whole culture that the most important characteristic of a great man in one of their great poemsis "keenness to win fame," almost as a wink, with the bard saying "and if you want to be sung like this hero, you must desire fame just as keenly, and so do great deeds."
- ctchocula 2y ago"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it."
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- animal531 2y agoI once accidentally dropped a glass that was about half full of water and I somehow managed to catch it with the side of my foot without spilling any. Sadly no one saw this 'feet'.
- madaxe_again 2y agoI did that once in my dorm room - then I dropped the glass and promptly stood on it. I actually gave myself a round of applause before going to get my foot sewn back together.